Thus, I require you, my assured frendes, and Countrey men (you Mathematiciens, Mechaniciens, and Philosophers, Charitable and discrete) to deale in my behalf, with the light & vntrue tounged, my enuious Aduersaries, or Fond frends. And farther, I would wishe, that at leysor, you would consider, how _Basilius Magnus_, layeth _Moses_ and _Daniel_, before the eyes of those, which count all such Studies Philosophicall (as mine hath bene) to be vngodly, or vnprofitable. Waye well _S. Stephen_ his witnesse of _Moses_. [Act. 7. C.] _Eruditus est Moses omni Sapientia Ægyptiorũ: & erat potens in verbis & operibus suis. +Moses was instructed in all maner of wisedome of the Ægyptians: and he was of power both in his wordes, and workes.+_ You see this Philosophicall Power & Wisedome, which _Moses_ had, to be nothing misliked of the Holy Ghost. Yet _Plinius_ hath recorded, _Moses_ to be a wicked _Magicien_. And that (of force) must be, either for this Philosophicall wisedome, learned, before his calling to the leading of the Children of _Israel_: or for those his wonders, wrought before King _Pharao_, after he had the conducting of the _Israelites_. As concerning the first, you perceaue, how _S. Stephen_, at his Martyrdome (being full of the Holy Ghost) in his Recapitulation of the olde Testament, hath made mention of _Moses_ Philosophie: with good liking of it: And _Basilius Magnus_ also, auoucheth it, to haue bene to _Moses_ profitable (and therefore, I say, to the Church of God, necessary). But as cõcerning _Moses_ wonders, done before King _Pharao_: God, him selfe, sayd: _Vide vt omnia ostenta, quæ posui in manu tua, facias coram Pharaone. +See that thou do all those wonders before Pharao, which I haue put in thy hand.+_ Thus, you euidently perceaue, how rashly, _Plinius_ hath slaundered _Moses_, [Lib. 30. Cap. 1.] of vayne fraudulent _Magike_, saying: _Est & alia Magices Factio, a Mose, Iamne, & Iotape, Iudæis pendens: sed multis millibus annorum post Zoroastrem. &c._ [1.] Let all such, therefore, who, in Iudgement and Skill of Philosophie, are farre Inferior to _Plinie_, “take good heede, least they ouershoote them selues rashly,” in [☞] Iudging of _Philosophers straunge Actes_: and the Meanes, how they are done. [2.] But, much more, ought they to beware of forging, deuising, and imagining monstrous feates, and wonderfull workes, when and where, no such were done: no, not any sparke or likelihode, of such, as they, without all shame, do report. [3.] And (to conclude) most of all, let them be ashamed of Man, and afraide of the dreadfull and Iuste Iudge: both Folishly or Maliciously to deuise: and then, deuilishly to father their new fond Monsters on me: Innocent, in hand and hart: for trespacing either against the lawe of God, or Man, in any my Studies or Exercises, Philosophicall, or Mathematicall: As in due time, I hope, will be more manifest.